"I’ll leave it to you here!" After Xi Hezhi left this sentence, he left with the battalion, and then the two mortars were transferred back by the first team officers. After all, the first team had only two mortars in total, and because of the close range, it was often here to shoot a few shells and then quickly moved to another area to shoot a few more shells, which not only met the needs of the team mortars, but also avoided being targeted by the enemy and counterattacked by frequent and rapid transfer.
After Xi Hezhi and others left, Han Duotian sat with Li Yuanjun, the commander of the two heavy machine gun groups and deputy military academy. Han Duotian took the cigarette handed over by Li Yuanjun and said, "I said that Li Xiong’s cigarette is a good product. I didn’t expect you to be willing to smoke this Fuyuan Classic!"
Li Yuanjun ha ha a smile, "that’s all I have. Anyway, I’m alone. What can I do if I don’t enjoy my salary!"
Han Duotian said hehe, "This man can’t send more than half of my monthly salary to his home, or he will have to drink the northwest wind at home!"
Han Duotian was married in his early years, and his old parents still have wives and three children. Since he became an officer, he has also brought his family from his hometown in Zhili to Jinzhou to stop them from digging in the soil. This way, his family has certainly become a city dweller, but it is not a small amount for everyone to eat and drink. Although Han Duotian is an officer, he is still the lowest platoon leader. Before this salary, Zhao Dongyun came to pay’ training subsidies’ to the troops for intensive training, but this subsidy is directly added to the food …
Moreover, unlike soldiers, officers and soldiers uniformly deduct certain meals and eat big pots of rice. However, officers have officers’ canteens and can give money at will …
Besides, when you become an officer, you have to prepare several sets of regular gifts for this army. Otherwise, you will be embarrassed to meet people when you go out. These army officers also buy them at their own expense …
Although these officers are paid tens of taels or even hundreds of taels of silver, the actual expenses are also higher than those of ordinary soldiers. This person spends a lot, and if he has to raise a large family, the pressure will be much greater.
Han Duotian spends most of his salary on family expenses every month, but it’s not much for himself. Like Li Yuanjun’s bag of Fuyuan cigarette company’s’ Fuyuan Classic’ filter cigarettes, it’s a pack of cigarettes that the general public can’t afford.
These days, the exquisite domestic and filter-tip cigarettes are actually not generally used because of the higher price, but are mainly used by middle-class people to replace opium. The slogan of cigarettes these days is that smoking cigarettes is cooler and taller than smoking opium, and you don’t have to worry about addiction.
Faced with the cigarette market, which is more profitable than opium, all industries want to get involved. Fuyuan Company naturally refused to lag behind others. In 194, it set up a Fuyuan cigarette company and relied on Fuyuan’s huge channel power to quickly market the whole northern region. Later, it even launched the slogan "China people smoke China cigarettes", which made the sales of Volkswagen brand "Fuyuan cigarettes" beat many domestic cigarettes. It was impossible for the northern market to win Fuyuan cigarette factory.
Of course, in the southern dialect, foreign cigarettes continue to dominate, and in addition, the newly-rising Nanyang cigarettes are also shining brilliantly.
Han Duotian used to smoke Fuyuan cigarettes, like Fuyuan Ming Dian, and it’s okay to smoke a few packs occasionally every day, which is naturally unbearable
However, it is obvious that Li Yuanjun should be generous and see more of Han Takou. Without saying anything, he directly handed over the remaining half of the pack of cigarettes. "Brother Han, you don’t have enough for me!"
Then he actually took out a bag from his pocket to see Han Duotian squeak. "Brother is bold enough, so I can’t be polite to Lao Han!"
"You’re welcome. I have to rely on you a lot when I wait for my brother!" Li Yuanjun’s age doesn’t look too big. At most, he is 2012 years old. Plus, he is a deputy military academy like Han Duotian. You can tell at a glance that he just graduated from Fengtian armament school.
However, although this Fengtian armament school is the same as the former third town camp school, there is a big difference between the crash course and the formal class refresher course
Most of the crash courses are recommended to good soldier or simply his old army officers, while most of the students in the formal classes directly recruit outstanding young people for the entrance examination, but it is quite strict. Last year, when the first formal class of Fengtian armament school was enrolled, more than 2,000 young Junjie came from China to apply for the examination. Most of these people have graduated from new schools such as middle schools and normal schools, or are scholars in the old imperial examination era. There are still many people who went abroad to study in a middle school but did not take the university or Lu Shi.
And how much is the admission? Less than 300 people!
In the refresher course, there is no reason to apply for the refresher course. In addition to the recommendation of the department, the students must be officers and students of Beiyang Sports Phase I, but only dozens of people.
This Li Yuanjun just graduated from a formal class, and he is an associate military academy. It is estimated that he will be a military academy in a few months. This qualification is more powerful than ability, and education is more powerful than qualifications. In the era, it is doomed that Han Duotian and Li Yuanjun have completely different life trajectories.
After this conversation in a few words, Han Duotian soon became very intimate with Li Yuanjun. It’s no wonder that Li Yuanjun’s family still owns thousands of acres of land in Shandong Province. It’s not bad to smoke a pack of Fuyuan Classic and throw a pack of feelings, but it doesn’t look bad.
"I said, Brother Li, why do you come to play this desperate job when your family is not short of money?" After Han Duotian took a drag, he said as he vomited a smoke turn.
Li Yuanjun listened and asked, "What are you asking me to join the army?"
Han Duotian nodded his head!
Li Yuanjun smiled and just wanted to answer, but at this moment, he suddenly counted and roared!
"artillery attack!" Then the answer became these two words, and then the two men quickly fell down, and then Han Duotian didn’t listen to any answer, but quickly climbed the trench and looked out through the small mouth to see through the telescope that many people had appeared in the enemy position opposite!
They are going to fight back!
Chapter one hundred and ninety-four Do not retreat to the death (1)
Han Duotian looked at the enemy figure vaguely in the telescope, and he realized that the enemy was going to counterattack. However, at this time, his troops did not have a brain to get up and stop the gun. It is not a good idea to continue to rush out of the gun hole because of the enemy shelling. In addition, the enemy is far away. This distance is not to mention that the infantry gun blocked one side and the heavy machine guns are not going to fire.
Although the range of heavy machine guns can easily reach kilometers, the accuracy is so low after that distance that it is outrageous. If the machine guns are aggravated, they consume a lot of ammunition. Zhao Dong Yunshou Fengtian Army is not a big country’s army, but it is free to play the heavy machine guns, and the ration bombs it can get are limited.
Usually, the heavy machine guns in the third town are usually suppressed at a distance of 500 to 600 meters. Sometimes, in order to save bombs and kill more targets, they will even take the initiative to put them at a distance of about 300 to 400 meters.
According to the effective range of contemporary rifles and heavy machine guns, the best fire distance of heavy machine guns is 350 meters to 400 meters, because this distance is just the effective range accuracy of heavy machine guns. Although it is still not good, the accuracy of a series of bullets is not very high. However, the distance of 350 meters is difficult for attacking infantry to fight back with their rifles.
Considering the effective range of heavy machine guns, that’s why Zhao Dongyun requires 60mm mortars to have an effective range of 500m. The main reason is that heavy machine guns can fire shells outside the effective range.
This attack on the sixth town was observed by many telescopes. It seems to the officers that this is a standard attack that can no longer be standard.
Xi Hezhi in the back looked at it and said, "It seems that this Wang Shizhen is still something, and the training in the sixth town is not bad!"
Xi Hezhi didn’t despise the enemy he faced, because let alone the fighting in the past few days, the level of coordination between infantry and artillery shown by the sixth town is not achieved by other countries’ troops
"Before the attack, the artillery support was about a battalion artillery. From their trajectory, it should be a wild artillery!" Wu Peifu in the rear is also looking at this through a telescope, but he still shows his face when he says this. Unfortunately, if the sixth town is supported by mountain artillery, he can hardly fight another anti-artillery war.
Now, the anti-artillery is not to think about the long-range wild artillery in the sixth town, but it is ten kilometers away from the artillery position in Wu Peifu, and unless the shells are winged, they will not fly to their heads.
But you can’t hit the artillery of the sixth town, but you can’t sit and watch the movie. So when the sixth town dispatched artillery to bombard the frontline position of the third town, the artillery battalion in Wu Peifu immediately suppressed the soldiers preparing to attack the sixth town
At one time, the two sides deployed rear artillery to fire one after another, and the fighting was all dotted with lines. The sixth town was going to attack the protruding part controlled by Han Duotian. Since it was necessary to launch a companion attack on the front line around the protruding part to contain other troops in the third town, the battle scale was expanded from team level and platoon level to battalion level.
Battalion-scale battles will inevitably involve heavy machine guns of artillery units, and will also affect nearby friendly forces, which will also have a certain impact on several nearby battalion fronts.
So Han Duotian saw that there were two or three hundred people preparing to attack himself. However, Xi Hezhi seems that the sixth town opposite has mobilized two battalions.
Since I came to Tongzhou, I have fought with the Sixth Town for so many days, but to be honest, this is the first time for such a large-scale battle. Before that, both sides played a small-scale sneak attack occasionally.
But let Xi He know a little relieved that the artillery behind him soon launched a shelling on the attacking troops in the sixth town.
For a while, although the infantry officers of both sides were nervous, the sixth town, the main artillery fighter, tried to attack the troops by firing dense shells to reduce the subsequent resistance in the early stage of the battle
Wu Peifu’s artillery units, on the other hand, also fired a large number of shrapnel, which was quite accurate, that is, to suppress the enemy.
At this time, I have to talk about the artillery shells fired by the artillery units of both sides at this moment. What is the shrapnel? In short, it is to fire the shells at the enemy and explode, and then the shells throw a large number of small steel balls around the ground, thus killing living targets.
Because this kind of shell is a direct head explosion, you can avoid it whether you are lying down or standing upright, even if you want the enemy shell to explode overhead behind the bunker or on the trench surface, and you have no bunker, then you are lucky.
During the Russo-Japanese War, a large number of soldiers on both sides died. This kind of shrapnel can be said that the contemporary military is no less than heavy machine guns.
At this moment, the infantry on both sides are trembling and hiding in the head of the anti-gun hole in their own trenches. Although they build the anti-gun hole in a crude way, they cover the trench head with a civil layer or simply dig another earth hole to drill in. However, this kind of fortification is still more effective for shrapnel.
In fact, it is this development of anti-artillery fortifications that led to the abandonment of shrapnel and the use of simple grenades to directly destroy trenches and kill enemies when attacking trenches.
But that was after the first world war. Now the trenches have only appeared for a year or two. When the artillery launched the shelling, they still used to make these shrapnel.